Together with collaborators including Peter Willmott, Peter Townsend and many others, he wrote a series of bestsellers which changed attitudes to a host of social issues, including urban planning (leading the movement away from tower blocks), education (leading thinking about how to radically widen access) and poverty.
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He initiated, and in some cases directly created, dozens of new institutions including: Open University, Which?, International Alert, University of the Third Age, Economic and Social Research Council, National Extension College, National Consumer Council, Open College of the Arts and School for Social Entrepreneurs.
National Science Foundation | Neil Young | Ford Foundation | Brigham Young University | Rockefeller Foundation | The Young and the Restless | Ernst & Young | Brigham Young | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Young Vic | New York Foundation for the Arts | BSC Young Boys | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Young & Rubicam | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Steve Young | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Apache Software Foundation | Young Pioneers | Loretta Young | Lester Young | foundation | Cy Young Award | Will Young | The Young Ones |
He regularly played pickup basketball games at Golden Sunbeam Montessori School where he attended from 4th grade to 9th grade and developed his basketball interests and abilities on a turf donated by Forever Young Foundation (Steve Young).